Some possible interpretations to the question “Are you like a fag or what?”
- “Are you, like, a fag?” — with the “like” being the typical, meaningless valleyspeak interjection.
- “Are you like a fag?” — with the non-empty meaning of “like” and with the question itself meaning “Do I exhibit some qualities associated with fags?”
- “Are you a fag or are you not a fag?” — with the “or what” at the end changing the question to ask instead if I am a fag or am I something else, which seems too open-ended to ask in the first place.
- “Are you like a cigarette?” — with the British interpretation of the word “fag” and the apparent curiosity about whether I exhibit qualities associated with cigarettes.
- “Are you, like, a cigarette?” — with the valleyspeak “like” and the apparent curiosity about whether I am, in fact, a cigarette.
- “Are you a cigarette or are you not a cigarette?” — which, again, seems too open-ended to ask.
I hope this clears up any confusion. Jerk.
We both have had to confront retards recently. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteFor real. But congrats on your first piece of idiotic hate mail. You're a real blogger now. There will be more, of course, and they will be just as misspelled and poorly thought-out.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we certainly don't get as much traffic as Back of the Cereal Box, disabling anonymous comments has (thus far) prevented any assholish comments here. It doesn't seem to have done anything to prevent SPAM bots, sadly, but those aren't quite so bad.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, nice handling of what is essentially pointless and strangely vindictive nonsense.
I wish people would ask me more often whether I am or am not, in fact, a cigarette.
ReplyDeleteOn a mildly related note, there was an anti-smoking ad in my Hello! magazine last week that loudly proclaimed, "Kill the fags!" in very, very bold letters. Cheeky or just oblivious, I'm not sure which.